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Harold Crick (Will Ferrell), a senior agent for the Internal Revenue Service
in Chicago, seems a virtual automaton. The reason is soon
revealed when we find that Harold is a fictional creation,
the central character in a new book by celebrated recluse
Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson). "I'm a character in my
own life," he tells his shrink, whose solution is to
recommend him to literature professor Jules Hilbert (Dustin
Hoffman). To find out who's "writing" Harold,
the prof tells him to start living the life he's always
wanted: learning the guitar and courting his baker Ana (Maggie
Gyllenhaal) seem a good start.
Enjoy a brilliant script by Zach Helm, fine acting, an
arresting soundtrack and Chicago’s finest architecture.
"Stranger Than Fiction
is a meditation on life, art and romance, and on the kinds
of responsibility we have. Such an uncommonly intelligent
film does not often get made" - Roger Ebert
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